Monthly Archives: November 2016

The National Board of Review Awards, the first major critics award presented every year, is not one that decides the Oscar race. However, it does have a hefty bit of weight in influencing the race. In 2013, despite picking mostly underrated...

This won’t be a long What I Watched, What You Watched, both because I’m drained from work (I’ve got a fun week of Cyber Monday sales ahead of me) and because I didn’t get a chance to see a whole lot. However, I did manage to get in two movies in...

Gilmore Girls may in fact be the most important television show of the 21st century. Allow me to explain this controversial claim. Sure, there were somewhat better shows, like Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Mad Men, or Breaking Bad. But Gilmore...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Yes, it’s the time of the year where we watch football, eat turkey and spend time fighting with family members. We watch our stress levels rise every year as we prepare meals for people, argue over...

Cinema has a habit of playing up dramatic stories: people tend to be colored more “good” or “bad” than reality, the odds are amped up, tension is added to make for a better story, and there’s always dramatic music swelling to a climax as the...

It took them long enough. Paramount and Martin Scorsese have their new movie coming out in less than a month, and we’re only now just getting the first trailer. But at least it’s pretty to look at. After almost thirty years, Scorsese is finally...

I told you guys that it would be difficult to predict the Independent Spirit Awards. They are notorious for going their own direction on everything. This year was no different, as Moonlight (expectedly) and American Honey (surprisingly) lead the...

When Disney released Frozen in 2013, it was a unique story with traditional (the nice way of saying “stereotypical”) characters, accompanied by gorgeous images and fantastic music. Moana flips but two of those things: it is a traditional story...

Sometime today-it may even be out by the time you read this-the Independent Spirit Awards will officially kick off Oscar season. While the award for the best of the films made without major studio help and a budget of under $30 million was...

Look, the Cars series has never been known for its maturity. It’s got a bunch of talking cars played by Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy, and has always been focused on being more entertaining for the kids than the intelligent fodder of, say...

The teen film genre has been in a rut for the past ten years. After reaching its zenith in the eighties with John Hughes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Brat Pack, it seemed to have another renaissance every few years. First came Dazed and...

Kristen Wiig’s second outing as host of Saturday Night Live was something of a mixed bag. She didn’t really have any terrible sketches, but there weren’t any really great sketches either. I guess it’s nice that Wiig refused to make the entire...